The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-10-27
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOM ESTiC.

raging in Iron Mountain village, Mich,
There were 200 cases in one day, and new
cases are reported every hour. Physicians
are working night and day, with help from
other towns. Deaths are numerous. The
authorities and physicians are at a loss to
find from what cause the epidemic comes,
| Poor water and defective sewerage are gener
| ally supposed to be the cause. A panic pre-
walls and many are leaving the village.
Joseph Plew, who murdered the Durham
| family last February for money, was SEN
| fenced by jury at Kosciusko to 90 years.
imprisonment. Plew cursed the jury fear
| fully on hearing the verdict, and said he
would rather be hanged, He was hurried to
the penitentiary, as the crowd talkel of
lynching him.
Arrangements are being made for weeks
festivities in May, 1888, to celebrate the COM
petion of the new Texas State House, the
largest structure of the kind in the country
outside of Washington. Distinguished citi.
zens from all the States and from Mexico will
be invited to take part
Two freight trains collided on the Nash
vile, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad,
killing two men, beside injuring three other
persons.
A passenger and freight train collided on
the Richmond and Danville railroad. The
engineer of the passenger train and passen-
ger were killed, and 10 others seriously
wounded The accident was caused by the
freight train not side-tracking at GrieTs to
let the passenger train pass. Both engines
were wrecked, with the postal, baggage and
express car of the passenger train, and the
first three cars of the freight. A negro saw
the engineer and conductor of the freight
running through the woods away from the
scene of the accident
State Attorney Grinnell seems certain that
the condemned Anarchists at Chicago will be
executed on Nov. II. Judge Baker was
about sentencing thief to 30 days imprison-
ment, when the attorney requested that the
sentence be shortened so that it would ex-
pire before the date of the executions, stating
that it was desirable to have as few prisoners
in the Jail at that time as possible. Judge
Baker acceded, and made the sentence Is
days.
The practice of hazing Jewish scholars at
the principle Mobile, Ala, public school,
Barton Academy, has assumed such proper
tions that an extra force Of policemen has
been placed on duty at the academy to stop
it.
The fast express on the Chesapeake s. Ohio
railroad, six coaches going west, met with
an accident near Charlestown, w. Va, in
which 26 passengers were moro or less in
jured, several seriously. The accident was
caused by defective switch. Two passen
gers suffered with broken backs The fires
had gone out in the stoves or the loss of life
would have been great.
Thomas H. Davis, assistant freight agent
of the New York Central railroad, who alb
seconded, leaving deficiency of SIS, 900 in his
accounts has been caught in Canada and
brought back. He pleaded guilty and was
held for trial.
At the session at Philadelphia Of the Ameri-
can Street Railway Association, Moses
Humphreys of Concord, Mass, addressed the
meeting relative to his experience with eight
wheeled horse cars. He said that he found
those of eight wheels could carry heavier
load and be propelled much easier by animal
power than those of four wheels The eight
wheel car runs more smoothly, and the day
was not far distant when the eight-wheel
system would be adopted altogether.
The mayor of Tampa, Fla, has appealed
for pecuniary aid, as many persons have
been thrown out Of work and must be pro-
vided for.
The Pennsylvania Presbyterian synod, at
Williamsport, Pa, adopted strong resolu-
tons in favor Of preserving the sanctity of
the Sabbath from proposed Entertainments
Nearly the whole business portion of Muir
rayville, ILL.,, has been burned with loss
from s25 900 to $40, 900.
Three saloon keepers convicted of selling
liquor on Sunday in Utica N. Y, have been
sentenced to break stone in the county Jail
for 30 days.
At Maxwell, Ia, Perry Ackers entered the
office of Mayor j. o. French, shot and killed
him. He then shot T. B. Schneider, but not
fatally, and, after pursuing others, turned
and shot himself, dying Immediately. No
cause for the murder is known.
The secretary of the interior has received
telegram from Indian Inspector Armstrong
at the Crow agency in Montana to the effect
that Medicine Man and his seventeen follow
ers have gone to the Tongue River agency,
and are endeavoring to induce the northern
Cheyennes to join them in resisting the au-
thority of the government
Dist.-Atty. MARITIME has received from W.
Fl. Delaney huge package of papers in the
suit of the Kansas Pacific bondholders against
Jay Gould and Russell Sage. Mr.. MARITIME
was asked if he would prosecute Mr.. Gould.
He answered that he would Just as soon
prosecute him as any living man, but that
he had not examined the papers, and knew
nothing Of the case except what he had
read in the newspapers. If, as he had seen
there stated, the acts complained of were
done in 1879 and 1880, that would be an abso-
is the limitation Of time under which
charge of grand larceny could be made in
the matter.
Yolman A. Rich, the founder of Kansas
City, went to Montreal after his fugitive
young wife, who eloped with handsome
young travelling ticket agent of the Chicago
& Rock Island railway. The pair were CON
fronted by the indignant husband, who, how
ever, on seeing his wife's tears, relented and
said: bella, if you only ask my pardon
will forgive you and take you home" She
pleaded for mercy, her lover beat hasty re-
treat, and Yolnan took his wife back to the
West.